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Did the show make any sense, watching it like that?

No, it didn't and I would like to watch it from the first season. It is kind of like watching season 3 of Game of Thrones first and not know what is going on. I had to go back to the beginning of GOT, after I started to get interested in it. I don't watch a lot of tv and I hear some of the guys at work talking about some series and they pull me into watching it.

I liked Ian in the new series he was in when he played one of the gods or something like that, but couldn't watch it anymore after it got really weird after the first 2 episodes. Just not for me.

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Originally posted by rusbro:
EB Farnum turned out to be one of my favorite characters. I especially loved his interactions with Richardson, which as I recall were in the later seasons.

Farnum and Richardson were among my favorite characters.

Francis Wolcott: This oatmeal looks old.
E.B. Farnum: It does, doesn't it? Richardson, Goddamn you! The oatmeal is clotted.
Richardson: Well, it's 45 minutes yet till the three hours.
E.B. Farnum: Stop spouting gibberish and replace the damned oatmeal.

I guess this should be on my list.

I watched the first season when it was originally on, but didn't watch it after that.

I started from scratch a couple of months ago, and I am enjoying it, and looking forward to the seasons I didn't watch.

There are many good performances in it. I agree that Olyphant's character is among the less interesting. To be honest, he is a competent actor, but is not a standout in this show.

Having watches a good number of season one episodes now, I too concur that Olyphant's character isn't as dynamic as I had thought he would be. Timothy not "feeling" it? Writers' fault? Or my having been spoiled by Justified? Dunno. It is what it is.

That said the series is well worth watching.

For giggles looked up Calamity Jane's history. All I could think of reading about her was "train wreck."

And recalling after I moved here in the early 90s, stories about Deadwood having been been a local quasi* Clark County Nevada until 1980 when the brothels were finally shut down for good in a notorious raid.


* I say quasi as the four "houses" on the 600 block of Main Street were never legal, just tolerated as a tradition even by local law enforcement.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f31PLcCXD0U

Always found this funny. Deadwood pancakes.

I enjoyed "Deadwood" from the start. Especially liked the first several episodes with Keith Carradine as Wild Bill.

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Originally posted by FN in MT:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f31PLcCXD0U

Always found this funny. Deadwood pancakes.

OMG that was classic! Thanks!

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Originally posted by jhe888:

I agree that Olyphant's character is among the less interesting. To be honest, he is a competent actor, but is not a standout in this show.

Without doubt Swearengen... (McShane) is the most interesting character and I would say central character in this series. I really enjoyed his conversations with the "chief's head"